**Oscar Trivia **
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**Answers!
**Name the two most-nominated films and how many
Oscar nominations they each received.
“All about Eve” (1950) and “Titanic” (1997), 14 nominations each.
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Which performer has the longest interval between
Oscar nominations for acting?
Henry Fonda, with 41 years between his Best Actor
nomination for “The Grapes of Wrath” (1940) and his Actor in a Leading
Role nomination (and win) for “On Golden Pond” (1981).
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Name the eight foreign language films that have been
nominated in the Best Picture category.
“Grand Illusion” (1938)
“Z” (1969)
“The Emigrants” (1972)
“Cries and Whispers” (1973)
“The Postman (Il Postino)” (1995)
“Life Is Beautiful” (1998)
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000)
and “Letters from Iwo Jima” (2006)
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Name the most recent film for which the lead actor and actress both
won Academy Awards, and name the performers.
Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt for “As Good as It Gets”
Name the three films in which married couples
were nominated for acting.
“The Guardsman”
“Witness for the Prosecution”
“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
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Name the three films that have earned Oscars for Best Picture,
Directing, Actor, Actress and Writing.
“It Happened One Night”
“One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
“The Silence of the Lambs”
Name the only “Oscar” to win an Oscar.
Oscar Hammerstein II
Name the person who has most often
hosted the Academy Awards.
Bob Hope hosted the Academy Awards a record 19 times.
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In what year was the Academy Awards
ceremony first televised?
1953
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When and where was the first Academy Awards
ceremony held?
May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Name the two performers who have each won Best Actress Oscars
for portraying a country music singer.
Sissy Spacek for her performance as Loretta Lynn in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (1980)
Reese Witherspoon for her performance as June Carter in “Walk the Line” (2005).
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Of the 80 films named Best Picture, three have been Westerns.
Name them and the years in which they won.
“Cimarron” in 1930/31
“Dances With Wolves” in 1990
“Unforgiven” in 1992
Name the only two married couples to win Oscars for acting.
Laurence Olivier (1948) and Vivien Leigh (1951)
Paul Newman (1986) and Joanne Woodward (1957)
Name the two motion picture trilogies that have received Best Picture
nominations for each installment.
“The Godfather” trilogy in 1972, 1974 and 1990
“The Lord of the Rings” trilogy in 2001, 2002 and 2003
Of the many pictures that have won Oscars in every category in which
they were nominated, which picture received the most awards?
“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (2003)
with 11 awards in 11 nominations.
Who was the first black performer to win an Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel, for her supporting performance in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.”
Which five performers have won Academy Awards for performances
in languages other than English?
Sophia Loren
Robert De Niro
Roberto Benigni
Benicio Del Toro
Marion Cotillard
Who is the only woman to have won three competitive
Oscars in a single year?
*Fran Walsh
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Two actors who played the same character in two different films
each earned an Academy Award for his portrayal.
Name the actors and the role they shared.
**In 1972 Marlon Brando won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as
Don Vito Corleone in “The Godfather,”
In 1974 Robert De Niro won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Vito Corleone in “The Godfather Part II.”
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Name the only director in Oscar history to direct both his father
and his daughter in Academy Award-winning performances.
In 1948 John Huston directed his father, Walter Huston, to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” Thirty-seven years later he directed his daughter Anjelica to a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in “Prizzi’s Honor.”
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